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How dumb can a nation get and still survive? By Eugene Robinson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/07/reconciliation-vaccines-election-america-dumb/How did we become, in such alarming measure, so dumb? Why is the news dominated by ridiculous controversies that should not be controversial at all? When did so many of our fellow citizens become full-blown nihilists who deny even the concept of objective reality? And how must this look to the rest of the world?
Covid-19 is a bipartisan killer. In the tribal-political sense, the safe and effective vaccines are a bipartisan miracle, developed under the Republican Trump administration and largely distributed under the Democratic Biden administration. People in most of the rest of the world realize, however, that vaccination is not political at all; it is a matter of life and death, and also a matter of how soon if ever we get to resume our normal lives.
Why would people not protect their own health and save their own lives? How is this anything but just plain stupid?
And then, of course, theres the whole stolen election farce, which led to the tragedy of Jan. 6. Every recount, every court case, every verifiable fact proves that Joe Biden fairly defeated Donald Trump. Yet a sizeable portion of the American electorate either cant do basic arithmetic or doesnt believe that one plus one always equals two.
How dumb can a nation get and still survive? Idiotically, we seem determined to find out.
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How dumb can a nation get and still survive? By Eugene Robinson (Original Post)
sinkingfeeling
Oct 2021
OP
we're on the highway to Idiocracy, watching FoxNews/NewsMax/OANN all the way
LymphocyteLover
Oct 2021
#9
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)1. I think we've just crossed the threshold.
Apparently we are about to learn that the Select Committee is caving. That's the end. We can't survive that.
KS Toronado
(17,220 posts)5. Select Committee will not cave....
But they do seem to be taking their sweet time in getting all their ducks in a row.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,112 posts)6. the answer to defying/ignoring subpoenas is to subpoena TFG.
When he defies it, lock him up.
E. Normus
(79 posts)2. seems to me
that the stupidity we witness daily, appears to have no boundaries.
KS Toronado
(17,220 posts)3. reQublicOns don't care how the rest of the world views this country
All they care about is political power.
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)4. Good damn question. Some people are so stubbornly and...
willfully uninformed that if breathing required decision making, they would die before they could decide whether to breathe in first or out first.
hibbing
(10,098 posts)7. They are smart, they are doing their own research! n/t
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,176 posts)8. Good editorial
LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)9. we're on the highway to Idiocracy, watching FoxNews/NewsMax/OANN all the way
Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)10. I believe the descent begins with pride
Thanks for the thread sinkingfeeling.